“At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.” Quote by Masha Tupitsyn
“I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.” PeopleStillsTodayLetting GoHarderPassingPassingsHave FaithPassing It Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that reflects not only our relation to cinema as a space of possibility, belief, and imagination. But more generally, of what could be, of readiness, which is what the movies have historically been about - the ability to act on things and change.” HappensBeliefProcessImaginationAbilitySpacePossibilityRelationCinemaReadiness Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.” BookRolesStructureActiveThinkerQuotations Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelingsProcessActingSubjectsReflectionInsightOne WayRangeConstructionConnectingPositivelyOutlinesDotsPromptsActing OutConnecting The Dots Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks. In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures. The links are digital encryptions that can and won't be located. That will have to be reassembled over time. It won't be exactly what it was. There will be some slightly altered version. So the book is both an immaterial and material artifact.” WayBookAgeEconomyMaterialsEndureAvailableVersionsClockDigitalLinksAlteredMessed UpDigital AgeArtifactsEncryption Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose writers, tend to be obsessed with. I think maybe I'm more of a curator than I am a writer in the strict sense because I am interested in how everything on the page, in a space, works together.” ThinkingWayLooksMeanTogetherSoundSpacePoetPagesCriticsObsessedVisualsProseWorking TogetherStrictCuratorMean Words Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.” WayWritingIdeasFeelingsEyeFormVisuals Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.” PeopleThinkingCareersLaughingComedyMaking People Laugh Author:Reggie Watts
“Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, "we will fix it.." It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late.” BigsProcessDifficultFindingsLateScriptsHolesToo Late Author:Robin Williams
“Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.” ThinkingWantProblemFallEasyNaturalLinesHairBrandsConsumersIronyInherentShelvesNo ProblemWant U Author:Aaron Belz